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Monday June 23, 2025. 06:01 PM
New York will construct the first major new U.S. nuclear power plant in more than 15 years, with Governor Kathy Hochul directing the state's public electric utility to add at least one gigawatt of nuclear generation capacity. The New York Power Authority will identify an...
Apple has quietly removed its day-old 'The Parent Presentation' video from YouTube. From a report: The Parent Presentation is a customizable slideshow that explains why a Mac is a useful tool in college. Students can customize the presentation slides, and then show it to...
The U.S. House chief administrative officer has banned WhatsApp from congressional staffers' government devices citing data vulnerability concerns. The cybersecurity office deemed the messaging app 'high-risk' due to lack of transparency in data protection, absence of stored ...
Bruce66423 writes (slightly edited to add more context): A former potash mine at Wittelsheim in Alsace now entombs about 42,000 tonnes of toxic industrial waste, and scientists warn that, over time, contaminants could seep upward into the Alsace aquifer, which in turn feeds...
Perched in Chile's Andes mountains, 'A revolutionary new space telescope has just taken its first pictures of the cosmos,' reports National Geographic — 'and they're spectacular.' Formerly known as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, it's expected to bring 'unprecedented...
The classic VW bus got an all-electric update — but that was just the beginning. Now there's an autonomous driving version (that's intended for commercial fleets, reports Jalopnik, 'a level 4 vehicle that drives set routes' that's 'going into full production' as the ID Buzz A...
The Python Software Foundation ('made up of, governed, and led by the community') does more than just host Python and its documnation, the Python Package Repository, and the development workflows of core CPython developers. This week the PSF released its 28-page Annual...
U.S. consumers 'rank problems with public electric vehicle charging and the time it takes to recharge as their top two reasons for rejecting electric vehicles,' writes the New York Times, citing figures from data analytics firm J.D. Power. But are things getting better?...
The developer-focused analyst firm RedMonk releases twice-a-year rankings of programming language popularity. This week they also released a handy graph showing the movement of top 20 languages since 2012. Their current rankings for programming language popularity... 1....
OpenAI appears to have pulled a much-discussed video promoting the friendship between CEO Sam Altman and legendary Apple designer Jony Ive (plus, incidentally, OpenAI's $6.5 billion deal to acquire Ive and Altman's device startup io) from its website and YouTube page....
Sunday June 22, 2025. 11:34 PM
'The worlds of Linux and Windows finally came together in real life...' writes The Verge: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel, have surprisingly never met before. That all changed at a recent dinner hosted by Sysinternals...
With no one behind the steering wheel, a Tesla robotaxi passes Guero's Taco Bar in Austin Texas, making a right turn onto Congress Avenue. Today is the day Austin became the first city in the world to see Tesla's self-driving robotaxi service, reports The Guardian: Some...
How AI will reshape the future of work? The Washington Post looks at India's $280 billion call-center and 'business process outsourcing' industry, which employs over 3 million people. 2023 saw the arrival of a real-time 'accent-altering software' — now used by at least 42,000...
The goal isn't to stop generative music, but to make it traceable, reports the Verge — 'to identify it early, tag it with metadata, and govern how it moves through the system....' 'Detection systems are being embedded across the entire music pipeline: in the tools used to tra...
'When Apollo astronauts stumbled across shimmering orange beads on the moon, they had no idea they were gazing at ancient relics of violent volcanic activity,' writes ScienceDaily. These glass spheres, tiny yet mesmerizing, formed billions of years ago during fiery eruptions ...
As recently as 2021, GM 'all but eliminated' hybrids from its future product plans, reports the New York Times. 'But then a funny thing happened.' Car shoppers balked at the high prices of fully electric models and the challenges of charging them. In the last few years,...
alternative_right writes: We certainly weren't looking for it. What we have confirmed is that metals have their own intrinsic, natural ability to heal themselves, at least in the case of fatigue damage at the nanoscale.' While the observation is unprecedented, it's not...
An artist cancelled their Duolingo and Audible subscriptions to protest the companies' decisions to use more AI. 'If enough people leave, hopefully they kind of rethink this,' the artist tells the Washington Post. And apparently, many more people feel the same way... In...
The education-news site EdSurge published 'sponsored content' from Minecraft Education this month. 'Students light up when they create something meaningful,' the article begins. 'Self-expression fuels learning, and creativity lies at the heart of the human experience.' But...
'A single infusion of a stem cell-based treatment may have cured 10 out of 12 people with the most severe form of Type 1 diabetes,' reports the New York Times. 'One year later, these 10 patients no longer need insulin. The other two patients need much lower doses.' The...
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